James Franco has opened up about why he wanted a role in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

The Your Highness star stated that he became interested in the popular vampire movies thanks to a school project at Yale University.

Franco told Playboy Magazine: "I had my agent tell [director] Bill Condon that I'd' be happy to do anything in Breaking Dawn. But that was because it was supposed to be part of a multimedia project at Yale."

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He continued: "I was working with a Yale undergraduate who had written an autobiographical play about putting on a theatrical production of Twilight in which I was a character. So I was interested in Twilight because I was going to be part of that play. I thought what a great connection it would be if I were also involved with the real Twilight."